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  3. December 2002

RE: CLLE and date type parameter in RPGLE subprocedure

>I wrote a new RPGLE procedure to accept the
>*CHAR parameter. While debugging, stepped
>into rtvWeekOfYearA and charDateIn still
>contains gobbledygook.
>
>DCL        VAR(&ENDDATE) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(10) VALUE('2002-12-07')
>DCL        VAR(&weekOfYear) TYPE(*DEC) LEN(6 0)
>
>CALLPRC    PRC(rtvWeekOfYearA) PARM(&ENDDATE) +
>             RTNVAL(&weekOfYear)
>
>.....DName+++++++++++ETDsFrom+++To/L+++IDc.Keywords+++
>     D RtvWeekOfYearA   PR           10I 0
>     D                               10A   Value

Hi Reggie!
a) VALUE.  CL passes only by reference.
b) 10i 0.  CL has no Integer data type.  Just Packed and Character.

Just an opinion here, but CL is not a true member of the ILE language
family, despite the addition of CALLPROC.  I would think twice about using
CLLE in favour of using RPG IV.
  --buck

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